For context, I often hang out with self-identifying Mexicans. I eat at their clandestine trailer-park restaurants. I’ve helped friends navigate car crashes while on another legal friend’s insurance.

I think the locale matters. I’m in a rural small town on the outskirts of a small metro.

ICE has only ever been involved when my impoverished, close friend was repeatedly beaten by her boyfriend. Fuck that guy all the way back to Mexico.